West HollywoodStats

Residents

35,716

Median Age

39

Median Income

$52,855

Crime Coverage

An artist and screenwriter from a prominent Canadian family was charged Tuesday with torturing, killing and draining the blood from the body of his girlfriend at their West Hollywood apartment. Appearing in a Los Angeles courtroom, Blake Leibel, 35, pleaded not guilty to felony charges including...

A former Los Angeles police sergeant who waged a decades-long legal battle with the LAPD over its treatment of gay and lesbian officers was charged Tuesday with assaulting his husband at their West Hollywood home, prosecutors said. Mitchell Grobeson, 57, faces a felony count of assault with a firearm...

A former Los Angeles police sergeant who had a protracted legal battle against the LAPD over its treatment of gay and lesbian officers was arrested last week after an hours-long standoff in West Hollywood, authorities said Monday. Mitchell Grobeson, 57, was taken into custody Friday in the 800...

Only three arrests were made at West Hollywood’s 27th annual Halloween Carnaval, a massive street festival that drew tens of thousands of revelers, authorities said Sunday. All three arrests were for public intoxication, said Sgt. S. Hewitt of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. No major...

Authorities are looking for the pilot of a drone that flew into power lines Monday in West Hollywood and knocked out service to hundreds of Southern California Edison customers, officials said. Witnesses reported seeing a drone buzz into the wires lining Larrabee Street and Sunset Boulevard about...

A man was fatally shot early Wednesday while standing on a patio outside the Comedy Store in West Hollywood as more than 150 patrons attended shows inside the venue. The victim was standing with a group of people outside the comedy venue about 12:49 a.m. when a man wearing a hoodie walked up and...

A West Hollywood City Council aide has been suspended and is being investigated by sheriff’s detectives on charges of eavesdropping on another council deputy and then e-mailing portions of her private conversations to local bloggers and residents in the city.

Authorities accused a skin-care specialist to the stars of becoming so obsessed with a business competitor that she hatched a plan to have him killed, going so far as to approach a former NFL player to carry out the task.

The latest sex crime report against "7th Heaven" actor Stephen Collins was made by a woman who said she was 13 when he allegedly exposed himself at a West Hollywood apartment complex in 1983, Los Angeles County Sheriff's officials said Wednesday.

Former rap impresario Marion "Suge" Knight, founder of Death Row Records, and two others were shot early Sunday inside a packed West Hollywood nightclub at a pre-awards party hosted by singer Chris Brown.

Gunfire erupted inside the cavernous 1 OAK club on the Sunset Strip about 1:30 a.m. as Brown...

When music impresario Marion "Suge" Knight and two others were wounded early Sunday at a pre-MTV Video Music Awards party for Chris Brown in West Hollywood, the shooting became the latest ripple in Knight’s imprint on the music world.

The former rap impresario Marion “Suge” Knight, a founder of Death Row Records, and two others were shot early Sunday inside a packed West Hollywood nightclub at a pre-awards party hosted by singer Chris Brown.The 1OAK on West Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard was thrown into chaos as multiple shots...

Former rap impresario Marion "Suge" Knight, founder of Death Row Records, and two others were shot early Sunday inside a packed West Hollywood nightclub at a pre-awards party hosted by singer Chris Brown.

Gunfire erupted inside the cavernous 1 OAK club on the Sunset Strip about 1:30 a.m. as Brown...

Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies mistakenly shot and killed an aspiring TV producer earlier this week while responding to a stabbing and hostage standoff in West Hollywood, officials said Thursday.Sheriff’s officials said deputies believed John Winkler, 30, was the attacker when they encountered...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department acknowledged Thursday that its deputies mistakenly shot and killed an aspiring TV producer earlier this week while responding to a stabbing and hostage standoff in West Hollywood.

Sheriff’s officials said deputies believed John Winkler, 30, was the attacker...

A 24-year-old man was shot and killed Monday night by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies who were responding to reports of an assault with a deadly weapon at a West Hollywood apartment complex, authorities said.

The shooting occurred about 9:30 p.m. as deputies approached the apartment...

A patient who claims she was sexually assaulted by a nursing assistant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center while she was heavily medicated described a feeling of helplessness when the alleged crime occurred.

"It's devastating," she said, to be victimized "when you're incapacitated and not yourself and...

It may not be art, but it's certainly going to be one of the most macabre objects ever shown in an art gallery: the Thanatron, the intravenous drip device that Dr. Jack Kevorkian invented to shuffle his clients off this mortal coil via assisted suicide, is going on sale next month at Gallerie Sparta...

Hit a cop car, don't go to jail — such is life for Amanda Bynes, who on Monday entered a no-contest plea to reckless driving in a case that had started with the former actress being accused of driving under the influence in April 2012.

Former NFL star and College of William and Mary alumnus Darren Sharper is set to be arraigned Thursday in Los Angeles on rape and drug charges in an investigation into allegations that he drugged and sexually assaulted at least seven women in four states.

As the names of this year’s dead were recited -- a transgender woman shot in the head in Louisiana, a transgender man whose body was found in a trash bin in Wisconsin -- Jennifer Doyle kept her eyes down and her head on her girlfriend’s shoulder.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is investigating the death of a man who somehow became engulfed in flames Thursday at the West Hollywood Carnaval and later succumbed to his injuries, officials said.

Gilbert Estrada, 51, was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Thursday and pronounced...

A former West Hollywood real estate executive wanted for suspected fraud was arrested and charged after he was seen on a YouTube video promoting a restaurant he owned in Mexico, authorities said Thursday night.

Alejandro "Alex" Martinez, 44, was the president of West Hollywood escrow firm and allegedly...